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1. Medal record. Men's amateur boxing. Representing Mexico. Pan American Games. 2007 Rio de Janeiro. Bantamweight. Carlos Roberto Cuadras Quiroa (born August 24, 1988) is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBC super flyweight title from 2014 to 2016. As an amateur he won a gold medal in the bantamweight division at the 2007 Pan American ...
Carlos Albert Cuadra (December 21, 1925 – August 31, 2022) was an American computer scientist and documentary filmmaker. [1] He was a pioneer in the creation of online databases and was honored with the Award of Merit from the Association for Information Science and Technology. [2]
Buenos Aires. The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo ( Spanish: Asociación Civil Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo) is a human rights organization with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the 1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship. The president is Estela Barnes de Carlotto . The organization was founded in 1977 to ...
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnuɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] ⓘ; c. 1488/90/92 [1] – after 19 May 1559 [2]) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.
Sagrada Família. / 41.40369°N 2.17433°E / 41.40369; 2.17433. The main material used is stone. The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, [ a] otherwise known as Sagrada Família, is a church under construction in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world.
Location of Nazca lines in Peru. The Nazca lines ( / ˈnɑːzkə /, /- kɑː / [ 1]) are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [ 2] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed. [ 3]
Church of San Pablo, adjacent to Colegio de San Gregorio. The Valladolid debate (1550–1551 in Spanish La Junta de Valladolid or La Controversia de Valladolid) was the first moral debate in European history to discuss the rights and treatment of Indigenous people by European colonizers. Held in the Colegio de San Gregorio, in the Spanish city ...
Bicycles Are for the Summer (Spanish: Las bicicletas son para el verano) is a 1984 Spanish war drama film directed by Jaime Chávarri and based on the homonym play by Fernando Fernán Gómez. [1] It is about the life of a family during the Spanish Civil War. [2] The photography started in July 1983 and it was distributed by Incine. [3] It was ...